The manner in which oral narratives have been altered across Dakshin Kannada to fit narrative of religious forces. Peter J Claus, one of the earliest anthropologists to document Tuluva culture has defined Paddana in “Tulu Paddana’s: Text and Performances”: “The Tulu-speaking people who inhabit coastal Karnataka have recorded the stories of their heroes and heroines, their local deities, their great …
Only with the coming of the Sangh and its projects like ‘Hindu Samajautsav’ and ‘Ittiga pooja’ were these spaces revived to operate as another space from where the Sangh could further expand their base. “Especially in our context, we had a practise which had minimal interference of the ruling castes back then like ‘Deiva Aradhane’. “The way things have changed …
The incident that the leaders at the Vamanjoor Gauraksha Dal launch kept referring to, as a trigger point for their renewed anger against gau-kalathana, happened 15 kms away from the event. We will protect our cows — ‘our mother’ — our self.” This proclamation made its way into every national media outlet with the usual stock photo of men wearing …
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